Patents by Inventor Animesh Chatterjee

Animesh Chatterjee has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Play to air control workstation system in a distributed object television broadcast studio
    Patent number: 6362856
    Abstract: A play to air controller station system in a distributed object television broadcast studio. In one embodiment, a play to air control workstation is used to control a variety of resources in a broadcast studio system interconnected by a communications network. The resources of the broadcast studio system include a transmitter unit, various media source devices such as tape decks and file servers, a network routers unit, and various decoders and encoders. The broadcast studio system is managed as a network distributed object system where an all physical devices are attached to the network either by containing appropriate software within themselves, or by attaching themselves to a computer proxy that is on the network and is able to control their functionality. The control system includes one or more device objects configured to store, route and transmit selected video segments to be aired from the television broadcast studio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Guzik, Animesh Chatterjee, Thomas W. R. Jacobs